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An angry crowd riots outside Australian hospital treating suspect in 5-year-old girl's death
MELBOURNE, Australia — An angry crowd rioted outside an Australian Outback hospital where a man accused of killing a 5-year-old girl was treated for a vigilante beating. The suspect, Jefferson Lewis, allegedly abducted the girl at an Indigenous community near Alice Springs in the central Australia at the weekend. The body of the girl, who is now known as Kumanjayi Little Baby because of an Indigenous ban on naming the dead, was found on Thursday. Lewis had been beaten unconscious by a mob before police arrested him at an Indigenous community later Thursday, police said. He was taken to Alice Springs Hospital, where hundreds of people late Thursday demanded he face so-called payback under customary law, which can involve spearing or beating. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowd. Several police vehicles were damaged. The hospital discharged Lewis to police, who flew him to the Northern Territory capital Darwin, 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) to the north, for his own safety to be detained. He is expected to be charged Friday. Copyright © 2026 The Washington Times, LLC.
Riots erupt over Australian Aboriginal girl’s murder as suspect arrested
Australian authorities appeal for calm after riots following the arrest of a man suspected of killing a five-year-old girl, Kumanjayi Little Baby.Hundreds of protesters have clashed with emergency workers in a remote Australian town after police arrested a man suspected of murdering a five-year-old Indigenous girl.Police say about 400 people gathered at Alice Springs Hospital in the Northern Territory, where the suspect was taken on Friday after locals beat him until he was unconscious.Australia’s public broadcaster ABC broadcast images of a crowd calling for “payback”, which refers to traditional, mostly physical, punishment in Aboriginal societies. They threw projectiles and lit fires, injuring a number of police officers and medical workers.Police vehicles, ambulances and fire trucks were damaged in the chaos. Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters.Girl missing since late SaturdayNorthern Territory Police Commissioner Martin Dole said the violence erupted when Jefferson Lewis, the 47-year-old man police believe abducted and killed the young girl named by her family as Kumanjayi Little Baby, presented himself to police at one of the town camps in Alice Springs.“As a result of presenting himself, members of that town camp decided to inflict vigilante justice upon Jefferson,” he said.The girl had been missing from
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